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Bowe-Stewart Lecture with Rick Atkinson

Graham School · David Rubenstein Forum or via livestream

Join us for a conversation about civic principles and leadership with Rick Atkinson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and New York Times bestselling author of eight narrative histories of…

Lecture | The Invention of the Fertile Crescent: Historical Lessons from American Orientalism

Center for Middle Eastern Studies · Center for Middle Eastern Studies

Abstract: During five decades that spanned the turn of the twentieth century (about 1870 to 1920), a tradition of oriental scholarship took firm root in the United States. American orientalists…

The Spectre of Automation: Robots in the New Jerusalem

University of Manchester

Meat the Machine:

The Sacred Geography of Exchange: Inscribed Landscapes and Caravan Networks in Sinai and the surrounding Red Sea region during the Late Iron Age

Archaeological Research Facility · Virtual event

This lecture is part of the series Affordability in the Iron Age: Household, Regional, and Interregional Economies in the Levant. This program of public lectures will take place monthly on Thursdays…

POSTPONED TO 2/1/27 | Omer Bartov: “Israel: What Went Wrong?”

Palestinian and Arab Studies Program · 315 Wheeler Hall, University of California, Berkeley

Please join UC Berkeley’s Palestinian & Arab Studies Program on Wednesday, December 02 for a book talk discussion of Israel: What Went Wrong? in conversation with Author Omer Bartov (Brown University)

One Gay Man's Accidental Creation of the Modern Tattoo Industry

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

Hanns Rudolf “Rudi” Inhelder (1929–2003) was a Swiss physicist in Cold War America and passionate tattoo collector. He built a vast archive and founded the Tattoo Club of America in 1960s New York…

CRAM: Jennifer Barry (Harvard Divinity School)

Center for Global Antiquity · Rhode Island Hall

CRAM is a work-in-progress group for graduate, postdoctoral, and faculty researchers working on the cultures and religions of the Ancient Mediterranean.

An Unknown Architectural Drawing from the Workshop of Peter Parler

The Courtauld Institute of Art

Join Professor Jakub Adamski for a lecture which explores a parchment sheet with a presumed sketch of the canopy tomb of Pope Innocent VI from the Charterhouse in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon.

Big Little Lives: Recovering the Histories of Everyone Else

Gresham College · Barnard's Inn Hall

In the 21st century, we no longer see history as the ‘great deeds of great men’ but seek to understand the stories of the marginalised or ‘silent majority’.

Negotiating the Frontier: Economy, Mobility, and Identity between the Pastoral South and Agricultural North in the Iron Age II Southern Levant

Archaeological Research Facility · Virtual event

This lecture is part of the series Affordability in the Iron Age: Household, Regional, and Interregional Economies in the Levant. This program of public lectures will take place monthly on Thursdays…

WORKSHOP | Inventions and Rejections in Ancient Metalworking Practices

Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology · Rhode Island Hall

Inventions and Rejections in Ancient Metalworking Practices

Submergence in the Wake of Slavery: Material Histories and Embodied Memories of the Middle Passage

Harvard University

A presentation from 2026–2027 Matina S. Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor Ayana Omilade Flewellen

Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium

Centre for Language Culture and Communication · Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

Join author Claudia Horn as she presents Rosa Luxemburg’s Herbarium: Radical Ecology and the Global Plantation. Better known for her revolutionary politics, Rosa Luxemburg was also an avid botanist.

The Markets of Tel Ashkelon in the Iron Age

Archaeological Research Facility · Virtual event

This lecture is part of the series Affordability in the Iron Age: Household, Regional, and Interregional Economies in the Levant. This program of public lectures will take place monthly on Thursdays…

Smart Lecture Series | “The Time of Dyes: Fleeting Textile Color and the Environment in Early Modern South and Southeast Asia”

Department of Art History · Cochrane-Woods Art Center 157

In this talk, Houghteling will introduce her current book project on bright but short-lived textile dyes that were shared across South Asia and island Southeast Asia.

Two Scientific Giants: Laplace, Gauss and the Law of Errors - Professor Thomas Körner, Emeritus Professor of Fourier Analysis at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge · Bristol-Myers Squibb Lecture Theatre, Department of Chemistry

Laplace is sometimes described as the “French Newton". He is best known as a physicist, but he was a polymath and he also played a key part in the development of probability theory.

Dear Mollie: Letter Writing and Friendship Across Barbed Wire and Racial Lines

Harvard University

A presentation from 2026–2027 Joy Foundation Fellow Sonia C. Gomez

An Imperial Legacy: The Beit Contribution to Higher Education in Britain, and Beyond

Centre for Language Culture and Communication · Sherfield Building, South Kensington Campus, London, United Kingdom

The German-Jewish brothers Alfred and Otto Beit rank among the most important donors to Imperial College London, and to several other institutions in Britain and overseas.

CONFERENCE | Slavery and Humanity Revisited: Old Questions and New Methodologies

Center for Global Antiquity

Slavery and Humanity Revisited: Old Questions and New Methodologies

Rhetorical Thought in the Syriac-Speaking World: Influences, Innovations, and Models in Antony of Tagrit's Treatise "On Rhetoric"

Central European University · Quellenstrasse 51 · Room D-001, Vienna